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Inscribe   /ɪnskrˈaɪb/   Listen
verb
Inscribe  v. t.  (past & past part. inscribed; pres. part. inscribing)  
1.
To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. "Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone."
2.
To mark with letters, characters, or words. "O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone."
3.
To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.
4.
To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
5.
(Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries. Note: A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former.






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"Inscribe" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the world. The armies serving in Georgia and Tennessee, as well as the local garrisons of Decatur, Bridgeport, Chattanooga, and Murfreesboro', are alike entitled to the common honors, and each regiment may inscribe on its colors, at pleasure, the word "Savannah" or "Nashville." The general commanding embraces, in the same general success, the operations of the cavalry under Generals Stoneman, Burbridge, and Gillem, that penetrated into Southwest ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman

... dream! Two hundred years are flown Since first thy story ran through Oxford halls, And the grave Glanvil did the tale inscribe That thou wert wander'd from the studious walls To learn strange arts, and join a gipsy-tribe; And thou from earth art gone Long since, and in some quiet churchyard laid— Some country-nook, where o'er thy unknown grave Tall grasses and white flowering nettles wave, Under ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... you, Sir: the work was anonymous, until you saw fit to inscribe my name as its author. Ludlow! Ludlow! how meanly have you thought of the ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper

... greatly. My writings were so well known, I found so many friends, that I can hardly take in so much happiness. But I must relate you one instance: in Edinburgh I went with a party of friends to Heriot's Hospital, where orphan children are taken care of and educated. We were all obliged to inscribe our names in the visitors' book. The porter read the names, and asked if that was Andersen the author: and when some one answered 'Yes,' the old man folded his hands and gazed quite in ecstacy at an old gentleman who was with us, and said: 'Yes, ...
— A Christmas Greeting • Hans Christian Andersen

... flare of the season in the shape of a ball at Government House; one of those mixed massed gatherings to which you are invited either on account of your rank, or your unblemished reputation, or the fact that you've had the forethought to inscribe your name in ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest


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